Archive for the ‘PLR’ Category

Managing Time with PLR Articles

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Part of being a successful web-entrepreneur is managing your time effectively. This means that finding the value of everything you do, and seeing whether the time required doing it justifies the value it brings to you. For example, if you owned a small restaurant, is it beneficial to be the cook, the waiter and the greeter to save cost of hiring staff? Theoretically it saves cost, and hence your net expenses will be lower and your margins should be greater. But we all know that if you took all those jobs then the amount of customers you can have at any one time is very minimal. This is why you delegate work to others. It is why you hire others to do the leg work. If your restaurant hired a greeter, waiters and chefs you are capable of bringing in more revenue and hence more profit. You are also able to focus on expanding and bettering your business.

The same concept lies in running a successful website. Whether you are selling products or advertising there is a cycle that you must follow. You must first of all attract users to your website, then you must convince them to buy your product or service. It sounds simple enough however it is a bit more complicated to have done.

As a webmaster your responsibility lies all over the place. You have to ensure your website is up and running and profitable. Spending large amounts of time writing content for your website may result in you neglecting other important aspects for your business. It is not working efficiently or effectively and most web-entrepreneurs are not professional writers so it may not be the best quality either.

If the focus of your business is simply directing traffic to your website to click on your Google ads then your goal should be quantity. Try getting as many articles up there because the net is a vibrant place and its best to cover a wide topic. Spend the bulk of your time looking for good content instead of writing it. Public Label Rights (PLR) article websites are an excellent place to start. They sell pre-written articles in bulk packages. And more often then not you are free to alter the articles to your hearts desire. Tweaking articles take a fraction of the time as compared to writing one from scratch. They will be focused to your market and they will be original. A popular site for those new to PLR’s is www.infite.com.

Once you have gotten the content written out you have more time to spend in other areas. For example other marketing techniques, like search engine submissions, forum posting, etc. You are also able to handle a much larger load. It is very risky to spend all your time writing content for one topic. Mainly because sometimes it just doesn’t work. You may have done everything right but search engines and web-users are mostly unpredictable. Try to diversify your income sources. Create more websites and rely on the PLR’s to get the content needed to sustain them. This is the best way to multiply your income and reduce risk.

Additionally it’s important to spend some time researching topic areas before you make your website. It could be saturated with too many competitors or not have any high paying advertisers. This can hinder earning potentials. Also it is important that your ads are placed effectively, time should be spent in increasing click-through rates.

How to get the most out of your PLRs

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Before submitting your PLR articles it’s always useful to get back to the basics with them. Most articles are well written however require some tweaking and amending in order to ensure they are crafted to your website and they are effective in their purpose.

First step is to ask yourself what is the purpose for the articles. Is your website selling a product? Is it an adsense site? If so, what area are you hoping to target? All these answer what type of PLR articles you should get.

Secondly once you have your articles, do a basic grammar and spelling check. More credible sites like http://www.infite.com give high quality articles. However you don’t know what you get with some PLR sites. Poor grammar and spelling can do great damage to the credibility of your website and act as a repellent to readers. Sometimes changing words and sentences around also help, as it makes the articles seem original to search engine spiders.  You are also free to change the language to better suit your marketing strategy.

If the goal of the article is to generate leads or inform users about the product or the area it falls under then it is vital that the article provides useful and credible information. Primarily for browsers to build enough confidence to listen to an article and buy a product they must trust the content and its source. Ensure that the articles are not just hype, empty promises and unfound facts. It is the first sign of a scam and the average shopper can spot it immediately. The article has to be relevant and useful.

Thirdly with PLR articles, it is very important to market it every way possible. Utilize each article to a maximum degree. Do not just submit it into a single directory, try and hit all the major popular ones and smaller niche ones too. You have paid for the article and spent time altering it to be the perfect marketing tool. Try and get it out there, and expose it to as many users as possible. Try putting snippets in blogs, forums, social networking sites and such. If you are really aggressive consider pay-per-click ads like Google Adwords. The key is exposure. Ensure the article has good keyword density so you have the right users reading it. There are proper ways of using keywords in your articles while still appearing relevant and natural.

Lastly of course is to not break the rules. If you are submitting into directories, make sure you read rules and regulations of the website. It is very sad to see many great articles being rejected because of technicalities. Try and keep your article reader friendly and stay within the boundaries allowed. There’s no point of having a great marketing tool if you can’t use it.

Using PLR for your Blogs

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Ever since blogs were introduced they have taken off phenomenally. Considered one of the more popular and innovative web-concepts, its primary appeal is its simplicity. Non-technical users have taken advantage of this format to express their views, thoughts, ideas and information, as oppose to creating traditional websites. It’s faster and cheaper to create and very easily maintained.

It can also prove very profitable based on the usefulness and relevance of the content you choose to put up. Entertaining and informing your audience plays a vital part in increasing new and repeat traffic flow an essential part in earning the big bucks. There are a number of ways to turn your blog into a money-maker, the most common being to sell advertising such as Google Adsense.

Another option could be to create product pages/reviews for affiliate products. Affiliate commissions are one of the safer forms of money-making as little risk is involved. Your site acts as a middle-man, and your only duty is to direct a customer to a product/service. There is no need to worry about inventory, storage, refunds, etc.

Blogs are also a good way to attract users to your main-website. Creating a blog that deals with a topic that associates with your website makes it a good point for directing traffic into your main website. Blog formats encourage discussion and can be considered “glue” to make your website more “sticky”. A blog that has a large number of repeat users and a growing user database can be a great resource for any website.

Although blogs are considered relatively easy and inexpensive to setup it does take a great deal of effort to maintain. Especially if users are expecting fresh content on a regular basis, which most loyal users do. For example if new content is added everyday, users will come everyday, if its kept in once a week, users tend to come only once a week. Any longer and there is a large risk most users will forget completely about your website. This being said, for them to come back at all, users must first of all find the content you have compelling and interesting enough to want more.

Blogs are also popular among search engines mainly because it is fresh content. If your blog is not constantly updated then it will be ignored by spiders.

The best way in keeping up with the demand from your users is to find a credible yet economical source of content. PLR (public license right) articles are a very good source. With PLRs you sign up for a membership to an article directory in which they periodically deliver high quality and fresh content to its subscribers.

An example is http://www.infite.com. Subscribers are limited in order to ensure the web is not flooded with similar content. Expect to pay a fraction of the price if compared against hiring a writer, and fraction of the time when compared against writing the content yourself.

How to Profit from PLR Articles

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Private Label Rights (PLR) is one of the most vibrant upcoming ideas on the internet today. Many of those who have seen the value in them early on are reaping in their fortunes now.

This article discusses in how to incorporate it in your website profitability and get your share of the cash.

Purchasing PLR articles is dirt cheap compared to ghostwriting. Ghostwriter rates range around $5-$20, a hefty price to pay for content. With PLRs you are looking at around fifty cents to a dollar, dramatically less for similar quality content.

Once you have purchased the articles more often than not you are free to do with it as you please. But to be safe check the “Terms of Use” of the website before you sign up. However you are generally allowed to alter and change the article to add any name as author of the article. So how can you profit from PLRs? Well there are countless ways only limited by your imagination.

The first way is to combine a large bunch of your PLR articles, modify and alter them so they look like an e-book. You can then sell these e-books online through websites like Clickbank and eBay. The e-book market is very profitable and with most of your content written already you can break even and be in the green relatively quickly.

Another way is to embed articles into reports which you send out as free newsletters. These newsletters are a very good way in attracting traffic flow into your website. Extra revenue can be earned by including affiliate links in these reports. This is a very effective way to market your/your affiliate’s products to targeted customers.

Thirdly is to release the articles periodically through an Autoresponder. Especially useful with instructional articles your emails can become weekly/daily lessons. Useful tips will get most users hooked on learning. Revenue can come from weaving affiliate links into your email lessons. There is usually more credibility attached to educational emails increasing trust and hence the chance of conversions.

Lastly is the most common way in earning revenue from PLRs. This is by adding them to your blog/web site and then adding ads like Google Adsense or Yahoo! Publisher. Additionally you are free to add affiliate links for products commonly associated with the content you are offering with your site. This is a huge market and many websites have a common flow of revenue coming in just from this.

The only possible downside is that your articles are not completely unique. But most credible PLR websites have limits on subscribers. Extensive research of PLR sites will allow you to find sites that limit subscribers, for example http://www.infite.com limits this number to around 200. Far less then the average PLR site.

However if you are truly hooked on getting unique content it is still quite possible with PLRs. It is very easy to alter articles and to make them original in a search engine’s perspective. Adding intros, conclusions, jumbling paragraphs, rearranging sentences and finding synonyms may take a few minutes per article as the bulk of the content is already there. It will give your content a fresh new feel whilst only spending a fraction of the cost and time.

Comparison of PLR and Ghostwriting

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

The most common way to get content for your website aside from writing it your self is either by hiring ghostwriters or to subscribe to a PLR (Private Label Rights) membership. Both can be effective however each comes with its advantages and drawbacks. Most webmasters have to contemplate this decision when choosing, in order to best suit their websites future. 

Ghostwriting is simply hiring a writer to write articles/web content for your website. It is a path very commonly taken by most webmasters. Its benefits lie in the greater amount of control in crafting the content and message that you are offering. Additionally all rights to the article are that of the webmaster and the content will be unique to the one website.

Drawback with ghostwriting is mainly the cost involved in finding and hiring a writer. Often this cost does not justify the returns sought from the content. It is a question of value for most websites. Additionally it is quite difficult to find good/reliable writers for content writing. Problems such as poor quality or plagiarism can severely hinder the potential a website can reach. 

PLR articles are a newer concept created by companies who saw a gap in the market. A gap brought on by the demand for more economical content. It works by allowing users to subscribe to a membership to a site which then posts out a collection of articles every month. Each site limits the number of subscribers so not to flood the web with similar content. It becomes a case in which a collection of webmasters share the cost of an article. The price of each article can be up to one-one hundredth the cost of ghost writing making it a very viable option for those seeking to find a cheaper content source. Quality and plagiarism is also often checked especially in more credible sites like http://www.infite.com. The process is very simple and saves a great deal of both time and money.

The main drawback is of course the fact that the content is not unique to your website, often diluting credibility in the eyes of a search engine. Additionally users may not have the ability to customize the content topic. This comes with a hidden advantage of course. As users can’t choose the specific topic they wish to use, many subscribers decide not to use all the articles they get. This means that with every post out many webmasters often end up getting completely unique content at a much lower cost. 

More common than not cost-benefit analyses shows that PLR article memberships are much more valuable to a website. It is a matter of how a website is structured and the market it hopes to target. Websites that wish to publish large amounts of content, that is general in nature should definitely opt for PLR articles. Those than wish to craft a specific message and can get high returns with less content should go with hiring ghostwriters.